The hallowed halls of academia may have filled with a dizzying array of counter-culture fashion since the 1960s, but like its fellow fashion statement the corduroy jacket, the academic beard continues to hold fast to the faces of many an academic.

Dr Tim Bunnell
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Geography
National University of Singapore

Building upon doctoral work completed at the University of Nottingham
in 1999, the initial focus of Dr Bunnell's research at NUS was on the politics
of urban landscape change in and around Kuala Lumpur and, in
particular, in a high-tech zone known as the Multimedia Super Corridor.
While he retains an active interest in urban development issues in
Malaysia, since 2004 he has also been carrying out research on the Malay
community in Liverpool, U.K.

In mid-2009 Dr Bunnell began a joint appointment with the Asia Research Institute (ARI). His role in ARI's Asian Urbanisms research cluster,
has revolved around efforts to position Asia as a 'frontier' of urban
theory. He is principal investigator on a comparative ethnographic
research project on urban aspirations in Asia.